Politics

Some opposition organizations are slamming Tatmadaw by all means in order to tarnish its prestige image, disrupt the public’s trust and to disunite among Tatmadawmen and as a result it is required to make stronger unity within unit, said Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing at the Parade of the 73rd Anniversary Armed Forces Day held at Nay Pyi Taw military parade ground on March 27.

Win Myint, ex-Speaker of Lower House, who is being tipped as a president, was elected as Vice-President by a group of elected Lower House MPs.

The nominations for the post Vice-President was held during the first session of the meeting of a group of elected Lower House MPs and then the second session elected Win Myint as Vice President with the majority of the votes by secret ballot system.

Deputy Speaker T Khun Myat of Lower House (Pyithu Hluttaw), a former member of Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), was elected as Speaker of the lower house on March 22, while Tun Tun Hein, Chairman of the Lower House’s bill committee, was elected as Deputy Speaker of the Lower House during the regular session of the lower house in Nay Pyi Taw.

Rakhine State is the state which suffers most both natural and men made disasters and so government is implementing regional development and peace and stability as well as humanitarian works according to Union Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr. Win Myat Aye.

Myitkyina – Kachin State government earned over K 20 billion out of K 34 billion tax revenue expected to receive in 2017-18 FY, said Wai Lin, state minister for planning, finance and revenue.

The state government expected to earn K 34 billion from commercial tax, income tax, stamp revenue, lottery revenue and special commodity tax but the revenue amount is just over K 20 billion till March 16.

The government is in negotiation with foreign governments to move their embassies to Nay Pyi Taw diplomatic zone as soon as possible and only Malaysia, Bangladesh and Brunei took land plots for their embassies, according to Nay Pyi Taw City Development Committee.

A ceremony to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of Deaths of Phone Maw and Soe Naing was held at Yangon Technology University (YTU) in Yangon on March 13 during which the message of last year was read out as that of State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi had not arrived in time.

Present on the occasion were families of late Phone Maw and Soe Naing, the students from YTU, the officials of political organizations, the old students of Yangon Institute of Technology (YIT) and the faculty members of the YTU.